Religio

The ancients had the right idea about religion -- and we have
screwed it up.

'Re-lig-io' refers to something that binds together, as in
'lig-ament'. A religio (our religion) is that which binds people and
society together.

Religion is not that privatized, sanitized, internalized foolishness which
we imagine today -- that we are forbidden to bring up in the public arena.
The public arena is all about religion. It is never a matter of whether
we have a religion, but only which one.

Every society has a religio, i.e., a religion. Any society
is defined by its common moral and legal boundaries. Any legal
system is always based on prior moral commitments, i.e., on 'religio'. Without those
boundaries, it will have no identity, and thus cannot survive.

Hence, there can be no such thing as separation of religion and
state (in the sense we are told today). Every state has its religion, like
it or not. America has, by Supreme Court edict, a secular religion (1962
Engel v. Vitale, outlawing prayer in schools). The public schools
are the State Church of Secular Humanism, which our children are, for the most part,
coerced to attend. There is no separation of church and state,
only of Biblical church and state. Secular religion rules
supreme -- and at gun point.

Ironically, both our Supreme Court and the Humanist Manifesto
recognizes secularism as a "religion". (Check out the
Humanist
Manifesto #1 in the Apologetics library.)

That is why, on the Road==>>, we are separating our subject matter
into the two streams, the first and deeper being that which binds together, the
religio for the day-to-day aspects of life of the public arena. On the
Top Page or on the Road Map,
see the
Philosophy and
Theology libraries which provide the "religio"
underpinning for the rest of the Libraries. See on the
Road Map, below the alphabetical listing of libraries, the listing according
to the Road paradigm.